Christian Marclay Quotes

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes.

It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

Art is all in the details.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

I have never been much of a painter.

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

Most of my pictures are really small statements. There's a banality to them.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.